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DISPLAY DEVICE Filed Sept. 14, 1957 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 WITNESSES: INVENTOR- Gerald L- Caraway Patented July 26, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT oFricE DISPLAY nsvrcs Application September 14, 1937, Serial No. 163,734

4 Claims.

This invention relates to display devices designed more particularly for exhibiting articles such as hosiery, gloves, shoes, etc., on store counters, or in shop windows, and generally similar to the type of display device exemplified in a copending application, Serial Number 146,564, filed by Emil J. Berger and Howard W. Matthews on June 5, 1937, wherein a wheel-like member carrying a number of the articles is mounted for rotation about the axis of a supporting post.

In connection with a display device of the character referred to, I aim to provide for more ready inspection of the individual articles, and at the same time preclude injury to or distortion of them incident to individual handling.

. This objective I realize in practice as hereinafter more fully disclosed, through provision of individual carriers for the articles, with means whereby they are radially supported in intervals e between group separators, at the periphery or rim of a member which may have the form of a wheel, with capacity for being individually swung sidewise in either direction independently of the others and/or individually lifted above the others without complete detachment from said wheel during inspection.

Other objects and attendant advantages will appear from the following detailed description of the attached drawings, wherein Fig. I is a perspective view of my improved display device suitably arranged with carriers for hosiery.

Fig. II is a fragmentary detail sectional view on a somewhat larger scale, taken as indicated by the arrows IIII in Fig. I.

Fig. III is a similar view taken as indicated by the arrows III-III in Fig. I.

Fig. IV is a view showing a slightly modified type of carrier for socks or stockings.

Fig. V is a view similar to Fig. IV showing a 40 carrier for gloves.

Fig. VI is a view like Fig. II showing the device arranged for the display of low shoes or pumps; and

Fig. VII is a perspective view of one of the 45 carriers for the shoes.

Referring first to Figs. I-III of these illustrations, the display device of my invention comprises a weighted base member I, which may be of circular configuration, and from the center 50 of which rises a tubular post 2. Mounted on the top of the post 2 is a member 3 having in this instance the form of a rotatable wheel with a central spherical hub 4 and with a rim 5 which is supported from said hub by a plurality 55 of spokes 6. As shown in Figs. I and III, the

spokes 6 are extended outward beyond the pe riphery of the wheel 3 and bent downwardly and laterally as at I, 8 to provide handles within easy reach when the device is supported on a counter, whereby the wheel may be rotated, each 95 handle being finished off at its end with a spherical finger knob 9. From Fig. II, it will be noted that the hub 4 of the wheel 3 is axially recessed upwardly as at M to fit over the top of the post 2, and is held assembled with the latter by' a screw stem II which is shouldered at its lower end and threadedly engages a tongue I2 cut out and bent inwardly from one side of the post 2. The stem ll may be utilized as suggested in Fig.

-I, as a support for a frame l3 which is vertically grooved at opposite ends, as at M, to receive an advertising card or plate I5 indicating the brand or character of the articles on display.

The device further comprises a series of carriers 5 which in this instance are flat forms preferably fashioned from wire, see Figs. I and II, and profiled for stockings or socks S which are stretched over them so as to be secure against easy displacement and held to shape notwithstanding rough handling. Integral with the carriers l6 and extending rearwardly from their tops are shanks l1 whereof the ends l8 are downwardly directed to form pendant stems for engaging vertical holes |9 serially arranged in spaced relation in the rim 5 of the wheel 3 in the intervals between the spokes 6, whereof the extended handle ends also serve as means for separating the carriers into groups. Due to this construction, the individual carriers 16 may be swung sidewise in either direction, with the pendant shank stems l8 serving as axes, independently of the other carriers in the respective groups on the wheel 3 for convenience of individual inspection and selection of the stocks or stockings. Carriers of the type shown in Figs. I and II can be readily removed indiw'dually when desired for closer inspection of the articles by elevating them sufficiently to dislodge their shank stems ill from the socket holes in the rim 5 of the wheel 3, and as readily replaced on said wheel after inspection.

Fig. IV shows an alternative type of hosiery carrier I 6a which is generally like those shown in Figs. I and II, except in that the toe portion I9 is retroverted, so that the device as a whole, when equipped with such forms, occupies less space.

In Fig. V is shown a carrier l6b profiled for the mounting of gloves, the same having a much longer shank stem |8b than those of Figs. I and IV with a thumb nut 20 threadedly engaging its lower end. Due to the added length of the stem 18b in the carrier lfib of Fig. V, the latter may be lifted above the others on the wheel as well as swung sidewise for the purpose of inspecting the article thereon. Such upward movement is however limited by contact of the nut 20 with the bottom edge of the wheel rim 5, the nut thus acting as a stop to ordinarily prevent complete removal of the form from the wheel.

In Figs. VI and VII, the carrier IE0 is in the form of a spring tongue which may be made from flexible strip metal or the like with rounded heads 2| and 22 of wood or composition respectively at its opposite ends, and having a rear wardly-extending shank 110 of wire whereof the free end is downwardly directed as at I80 to provide the attaching stem. The shank He is se-- cured to the tongue somewhat inward of the head by a pair of clamp nuts 23, 24. In practice,

in order to provide firm anchorage of the shank Ilc with security against turning, it is preferably welded or soldered fast to the nuts'23, 24 and the latter to the tongue. In applying the carrier I the tongue is bowed and inserted into the shoe so that the heads 2| and 22 at its opposite ends engage within the heel and toe of the shoe S as shown in Fig. VI, whereafter the shoe is held in suspension by the carrier solely under the spring action of said tongue. With the shank stem l8c engaged in one of the apertures IQ of the wheel rim 5 as in Fig. VI, it will be apparent that the carrier I60 may be swung from side to side like the carriers of the previous embodiments, as and for the purpose already understood.

Obviously, if desired, the carriers of Figs. I, II, IV and VI may be provided with long shank stems and with stop nuts like that of the glove carrier of Fig. V.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. A display device of the character described comprising a post; a horizontal support centered on the post having radial separator arms projecting outward from its rim and annularly .arranged socket holes in the intervals between said arms; and a plurality of individual carriers for articles which are to be displayed, said carriers having rearward shanks with pendant terminal stems adapted to be engaged in the socket holes of the support so that the articles in the groups set apart by the radial separator arms of said carrier can be independently swung sidewise in either direction relative to the others in the respective groups for convenience of individual inspection.

2. A display device according to claim 1, wherein the support is rotatable as a wheel about the post, and wherein the radial separator arms extend beyond the supported articles to serve as handles for convenience of turning the support.

3. A display device according to claim 1, including means for normally securing the carriers against removal from the support.

4. A display device according to claim 1, wherein the stems of the carriers are of a length to permit the articles to be individually lifted above others; and wherein stops are provided on said stems to prevent complete detachment of the carriers from the support.

GERALD L. CONNELLY. 

